Form and function: A study on the distribution of the inflectional endings in Italian nouns and adjectives

VN Pescuma, C Zanini, D Crepaldi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Inflectional values, such as singular and plural, sustain agreement relations between
constituents in sentences, allowing sentence parsing and prediction in online processing …

Effects of animacy on the processing of morphological Number: a cognitive inheritance?

C Zanini, R Rugani, D Giomo, F Peressotti… - Word …, 2020 - euppublishing.com
Language encodes into morphology part of the information present in the referential world.
Some features are marked in the great majority of languages, such as the numerosity of the …

The entropy of morphological systems in natural languages is modulated by functional and semantic properties

F Franzon, C Zanini - Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In most natural languages, grammatical gender and number features encode semantic
attributes concerning animacy, sex, and numerosity. Despite the likely advantage of …

The cognitive reality of morphomes. Evidence from Italian

C Cappellaro, N Dumrukcic, I Fritz, F Franzon… - Morphology, 2024 - Springer
This study reports and discusses the results of a pilot psycholinguistic investigation into the
morphome–a term created (Aronoff) to indicate systematic relations between form and …

Different degrees of abstraction from visual cues in processing concrete nouns

F Franzon, C Zanini - … on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and …, 2019 - torrossa.com
We report empirical data collected with preschool children in which we show that the
uncountable reference is dispreferred. We discuss possible reasons for this phenomenon …

Capitolo 17. Sull'integrazione (morfologica e morfosintattica) di alcuni grecismi indiretti nella diacronia del romanesco.

M Wild, V Faraoni, M Loporcaro - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für …, 2020 - degruyter.com
This chapter addresses a series of Greek loan nouns that had previously been integrated
into Latin and which may, in some cases, have entered Romanesco via an intermediate step …

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